Word: talled
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Born in Clarksburg, W. Va., Vance attended Connecticut's Kent School, then studied economics at Yale, where his tall, lanky frame suggested his nickname: Spider. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1942, he joined the Navy, served on destroyers in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II. In 1947 he joined a Manhattan law firm...
...talk to another neighbor, Mrs. Lillie Mae Common. She had recently quit a cooking job at one of the local eateries, a small room attached to the Pure Oil gas station just this side of the railway tracks that divides the town. The eatery is run by a tall woman, hair dyed an unnatural deep black, whose hips liked to brush against the hairy fingers of a customer. Sister of the gas-station's owner-manager, she was married and yet not married; some mystery surrounded her status...
...inmates averaged 6 ft. 1 in. tall, whereas the average for other Carstairs inmates was 5 ft. 7 in. In Mel bourne, Dr. Saul Wiener found that the same was true of four Australians, all XYY, who were doing time for murder, attempted murder or larceny. Dr. Mary A. Telfer of Pennsylvania's Elwyn Institute found five XYY abnormalities among 129 inmates at Pennsylvania prisons and penal hospitals selected for study because of their height...
Property Offenses. The consensus so far among the few investigators who have studied the problem is that an extra Y chromosome seems to be as sociated with below-average intelligence, tall stature and severe acne-traits that might result from the hormone-stimulating effects of the duplicated chromosome. But little more is known about the Y chromosome's effects. Dr. Wil liam Price, who works with the research group in Edinburgh, doubts that the XYY pattern can be linked with crimes of violence or sex. Among the XYY men studied at Carstairs, he points out, the proportion whose offenses...
...bunch of the fellows tossing around a basketball in somebody's driveway, while the women chat and watch and the children scramble and squabble. There's likely to be a spirited game of tennis at John and Bernadette Ong's place, followed by a few tall, cold vodka-and-tonics perhaps at Matt and Terry Gallagher's. The women can be depended upon to keep the co-op nursery school running smoothly. And thank heavens for Irene Saltz, without whose all-fired energy Tarbox would never have achieved such an effective League of Women Voters...